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Apply Now for a Baylor University Community Oral History Grant

Humanities TexasNovember 2014

For over forty years, the Baylor University Institute for Oral History (BUIOH) has worked with communities throughout Texas to better record, archive, and present their history. In 2015, BUIOH will make available a grant of up to $2,500 to support a nonprofit group conducting oral history research at the community level in Texas.

Baylor University will partner with recipients in their efforts and provide training, equipment, consultation, and processing of field interviews, which will be made available online as well as co-deposited at Baylor University and a local public archive. The community members who carry out the oral history project will also develop and arrange public programming to highlight the accomplishments of their endeavors.

The deadline for grant applications is January 16, 2015. For instructions on how to apply, visit the Community Oral History Grant page of the BUIOH website.

To celebrate the interviews collected through a Community Oral History Grant, the Bremond Historical Society hosted "An Evening of Heritage" in April 2013. The highlight of the special event was a readers theatre at which volunteers read excerpts from the transcribed oral histories. Photo by Michelle Holland. Courtesy of Baylor University Institute for Oral History.